The Best Episodes of The Professionals Season 5
Every episode of The Professionals Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Professionals Season 5!
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
Season 5 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Professionals" season 5 is "Foxhole on the Roof", rated 8.2/10 from 140 user votes. It was directed by William Brayne and written by Brian Clemens. "Foxhole on the Roof" aired on 11/7/1982 and is rated 0.7 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Operation Susie".
8.2/10 140 votes#1 - Foxhole on the Roof
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/1982
A post-operative ward in a hospital is held to ransom by a newly-released convict who plans to make a fortune, setting up his own foxhole at the top of a nearby building. CI5 hatch a plot to bring him down before he takes a fatal shot at the hospital.
Director: William Brayne
Writer: Brian Clemens
7.5/10 110 votes#2 - Operation Susie
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/1982
A department in a British Government appears to be attempting to kill a bunch of drug-dealing students...but why?
Director: Ian Sharp
Writer: Ranald Graham
7.0/10 98 votes#3 - You'll Be All Right
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/1982
A leader of a criminal gang offers to surrender himself if in exchange he is guaranteed protection for his family.
Director: John Crome
Writer: Gerry O'Hara
7.4/10 110 votes#4 - Lawson's Last Stand
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 11/28/1982
Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lawson has gone missing without trace...and is armed with vital military secrets from NATO. Can CI5 seek him out before he tells all?
Director: Ian Sharp
Writer: Ranald Graham
7.4/10 119 votes#5 - Discovered in a Graveyard
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 12/5/1982
Whilst investigating a bombing plot Doyle is shot and left for dead in his flat, and as the hospital fights to save his life, he seems unable to decide whether he wants to live or die...meanwhile, Bodie goes on a chase to find Doyle's assailant.
Director: Anthony Simmons
Writer: Christopher Wicking
7.9/10 116 votes#6 - Spy Probe
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 12/12/1982
An organisation which hires killers to assassinate virtual nobodies on sight is infiltrated by Bodie and Doyle, who must find out who the perpetrators are and why, by going undercover and posing as potential hitmen themselves.
Director: Dennis Abey
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.7/10 114 votes#7 - Cry Wolf
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 1/9/1983
A young woman contacts the police, saying she is being stalked and is in fear for her life, but they think she is making the whole story up.
Director: Phil Meheux
Writer: Paul Wheeler
7.6/10 109 votes#8 - The Untouchables
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 1/16/1983
Bodie is offered the opportunity to clear up all his gambling debts by a foreign diplomat - who in exchange wants to have some vital secrets from CI5.
Director: William Brayne
Writer: Brian Clemens
7.7/10 102 votes#9 - The Ojuka Situation
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 1/23/1983
A sacked former African Head attempts to get reinstated in office using the help of the British Government, but the plan is sidetracked by one particular civil servant who now wants him dead.
Director: Christopher King
Writer: Dave Humphries
7.5/10 95 votes#10 - A Man Called Quinn
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 1/30/1983
A former colleague of Cowley's who is now a patient in a mental hospital reappears in London, going on the run when he believes that the KGB have drugged him.
Director: Horace Ové
Writer: Tony Barwick
7.6/10 108 votes#11 - No Stone
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 2/6/1983
A young woman from a rich and successful family turns terrorist, shunning her wealthy background and the British Justice system which she now views as being corrupt. Important legal establishments located around London are targeted by the terrorist groups, who are planting several bombs at key points around the city.
Director: Chris Burt
Writer: Roger Marshall